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Editor's Notes

• #3: Welcome to your Freshman Orientation Class for Information Literacy.My name is Tamara Carr and I am one of the instructional librarians here@ CCC.
• #4: I want you to keep in mind that The first priority of the library and college is to serve YOU!! So pleassssseee take advantage of all the resources the library offers ~I am going to ask u a favor…. Please Remember I am a librarian because I love my job~so don’t ever hesitate to ask any questions.
• #5: Here are the librarys summer hours ~feel free to stop by the reference desk,email or just leave a phone message if you have questions
• #6: Essentially well go overnarrowing your topic & then searching our catalog, databasesand other resourcesat the end we will set time to set aside some time to take a tour of the library where you will be able to get a library card
• #7: One of my jobs here is to Provide information literacy instruction which teaches you the abilities necessary to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, effectively use, and communicate information in its various formats.This z actually what we don’t want
• #8: We may not realize it but most of us search out information on a daily basis………………………..You just don’t think of them as topics for research But they are …just that…think about it…If you need~Directions to drive to a new storeOr The Best cell phone in ur price range? We locate a source of info we trust A map or directional web siteConsumer reportsA relible friendAnd then we learn what we need to learn
• #9: So you may get an assignment that looks something like thisMy job is to get you to the point where you can easily complete these assignmentsHave any of your teachers already given out assignments? Do any of them provide topics or are you to come up with them on your own? Ok so some Topics are sometimes assigned to you but if they aren'tyou will need to select and narrow a topic…
• #10: If you have the option of picking a research topic entirely of your own choosing, keep this one selection criteria in mindSelect something of interest to youIt may make the research process more enjoyable Bc you might have your own experience and knowledge on the topic to draw from and you may be more motivated to learn about the topic bc its something ur interested in….So stop and think about it don’t just choose something to get it out of your way
• #11: You know how n some classes the teacher asks that “we go around the room and have you tell me your name and something about urself” …im going to ask you to do that now but a little differently“The way you will be able to participate is by sending a text message so We’re going to need to grab your cell phones but remember to leave them on silent.
• #12: You simply send a message to the five digit number 37607. In the body of the message, you’ll type 55395 keyword for your major …undecided, education,
• #13: Nice, so now that we have ideas of what we like … and for some of you that will be ur major! These are several resources that will assist you with topic selection~READ ABOVEDo any of you have experience with these already? Cool..Well discuss the resources bc they are great topic narrowing tools, background sources and excellent to shop for topicsI also have a handout for you with the topics that u might give u a jumpstart on a topic if ur still stuck
• #14: ***Ok so how does this relate to information literacy and research?
• #15: On a practical level our books are grouped on the shelves using a system that gathers books on similar topics together,this classification system is called the libray of congress call numbers
• #16: LOC uses letters and/or numbers (call numbers) to arrange the books so that books on the same topic are together. A great way to narrow down your topic…. give me something… ok so you would go to that section and start lookingThe arrangement results in "serendipitous browsing:" you find one book in the catalog, go to the shelf, and, an even better book is sitting right next to itThe first two lines describe the subject of the book.DS559.45 = Vietnamese ConflictThe third line often represents the author's last name.H = HallinThe last line represents the date of publication.SHOW PIC OF CATALOG
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• #18: This understanding of how knowledge can be thought of as bodies of information that are organiaxed from broad areas to more specific blocks of information will be most useful as you begin to think about choosing, narrowing and focusing your research topicsSO I Am going over this because many students, including myself to this day, pick a topics that are too braod, meaning that it would take a book or very larg paper to address the topic. If you think your topic is too broad you will need to focus the topic by selecting a portion of the topic to write about. Focusing a broad topic can be challenging but we will go over some examples we already went over serendipidous browsing whih is one of my favorites~ and the great thing is you can
• #19: Search the contents of in the broad tpic you can browse the contents for a more specific focusded topic
• #20: So lets get some more Resources and tips to help you narrow a topic: subject encyclopedias general topick like computer games, consult one of the library subject encyclopedias. These encyclopedia cover a specific subject in depth….lets go to online website and do this real Enter video
• #21: So when you find a subject encyc on your borad topic and you need to identify a narrower topic you can scan the table of contents and index for ideas. In many cases you will encounter a n article on a particualr aspect of the broad subject that is interesting and this can serve as a starting point for your research projectSubject enclyclopedias are offered on many subject areas they are a great source of short blurbs that provide background info to help you quickly larn about the issues that relate to your topic~learn key persons, events, places, dates, terms
• #22: Presents clashing views on controversial issues on a broad topic. An overview essay outling the controversy is proviede in favor of one point of view for the issue and another essay in favor of the other points of view~ to review some go to the catalogue and type in viewpoints.
• #23: A well focused topic may have two parts : scope areyou going to write about the developemnet of wind power, environmental aspects of wind power or a particualr local governement regulation of wind power projectsSecond is the point you will want to make about he topic or the treatment you want to give the topic . Are you for or against do you have an argument do you have an insiguht you want to shareUse of a source of background info such as cq researcher to begin your research cannot be overempahzies. It is very difficult to locate the sources you neeed if you have little knowledge of the topic you are researching. It may be helpful to think of these background sources is this wasy: someone has already done some the work for you~ take advanatage of that.So we know some of the best resources to use for identifying narrowing and focusing topics. Once you have a topic you need to select some terms called keywords that you can use to search for information relating to your topic.
• #24: Look at these examples of narrowed research topics with tht keywords highlighted….READ ABOVE….youneed to select keywords due to the way most search interfaces work…the words you enter will be compared to the words in the records being searched. If you enter too many workds you are likely to receive few if any results.For example if you enter “what role should the courts play in the right to die cases” any articles returned will need to have many or all of those words somewhere in the record describing the articles. In one of our larger databases employing all these words in the search does not retrieve any articles but using the words “courts right to die” returns X articles/